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By many accounts, Porsche never produced (or outsourced the production of) a silver hood crest. That being said, it is quite easy to take an existing gold, factory, real hood crest, and nickel/silver/etc. plate it. That will not, in any way, change the fact that the original, underlying, crest came with a Porsche part number cast into it.
My point - the part number shown in your pic above is meaningless. It simply shows that the crest has a Porsche part number. It does not prove that Porsche produced a silver hood crest.
Just my opinion (and that of a few others here).
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This topic was obviously beaten to death with your initial 'for sale' post, but I feel like making one more comment and then walking very far away from this topic:
By many accounts, Porsche never produced (or outsourced the production of) a silver hood crest. That being said, it is quite easy to take an existing gold, factory, real hood crest, and nickel/silver/etc. plate it. That will not, in any way, change the fact that the original, underlying, crest came with a Porsche part number cast into it.
My point - the part number shown in your pic above is meaningless. It simply shows that the crest has a Porsche part number. It does not prove that Porsche produced a silver hood crest.
Just my opinion (and that of a few others here).
Andreas
By many accounts, Porsche never produced (or outsourced the production of) a silver hood crest. That being said, it is quite easy to take an existing gold, factory, real hood crest, and nickel/silver/etc. plate it. That will not, in any way, change the fact that the original, underlying, crest came with a Porsche part number cast into it.
My point - the part number shown in your pic above is meaningless. It simply shows that the crest has a Porsche part number. It does not prove that Porsche produced a silver hood crest.
Just my opinion (and that of a few others here).
Andreas
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I apologize. It was indeed very, very difficult to simply state my opinion, and walk away. With that, I present the facts as sent to me today from a veteran Porsche parts guy. I've trusted him for five years and certainly believe him on this subject:
And that will be my final input... 
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I've been asked this before and heard from somebody that a Porsche was made with a silver crest. Silver crests were aftermarket, all the Porsche cars come from the factory with the gold crests we all know and love. We even sold the silver ones for a short time but since they are aftermarket the silver flaked off. Due to improper installation or faulty quality.
I've been doing this 10 years, not a lot by some parts guys history, but never seen any p/n offered in PET that was silver, always gold, and of those 3-4 p/n's offered things were different like the tint of the gold, the red, and if Porsche was in black or gold on the very top.
I've been doing this 10 years, not a lot by some parts guys history, but never seen any p/n offered in PET that was silver, always gold, and of those 3-4 p/n's offered things were different like the tint of the gold, the red, and if Porsche was in black or gold on the very top.
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I apologize. It was indeed very, very difficult to simply state my opinion, and walk away. With that, I present the facts as sent to me today from a veteran Porsche parts guy. I've trusted him for five years and certainly believe him on this subject:
And that will be my final input...
Andreas
And that will be my final input...
Andreas
) but the part number 993 559 211 00 that is on the back of the OP's now gone (and hopefully soon to be very long forgotten) 'silver flaking off of the back' badge is the OEM gold crest part number. It's in PET that way and it's the one and only 993 gold OEM crest. Which somebody somewhere in the world might decide to buy, refinish, and turn into a profitable but cute silver crest. (And yep, some badges will start with #996, because they were for the, um, 996.)The topic is well-cooked now and over done. Let this thread (and its cousin) wander off into cyberspace and sit in the dark on some lonely server somewhere. Perhaps to be revived one day for a future Porsche historian to use as a humorous anecdote.
Edit: Ghandi actually did make mine.
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Hi Mark,
very rare 1 of 1 all carbon F3 car with Alfa motor. Pilette developed it in the Mid 90's. It has leading edge ground effects technology that found it's way into F1.
My friend & I hope to purchase it for MMC. It's for sale in Canada right now.(~25k)
Since it has an Alfa Romeo motor I can't put a Porsche Silver crest on it. HAH!
Rich
very rare 1 of 1 all carbon F3 car with Alfa motor. Pilette developed it in the Mid 90's. It has leading edge ground effects technology that found it's way into F1.
My friend & I hope to purchase it for MMC. It's for sale in Canada right now.(~25k)
Since it has an Alfa Romeo motor I can't put a Porsche Silver crest on it. HAH!
Rich
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